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• “After some time the Sultãn started contemplating the conquest of the port of Jagat which is a place of worship for the BrahmaNas… With this resolve he started for the port of Jagat on 16 Zil-Hajjã, AH 877 (AD 14 July, 1473). He reached Jagat with great difficulty due to the narrowness of the road and the presence of forests… He destroyed the temple of Jagat…”

  Mahmud Begada (1458–1511) first seen 1458 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Sultãn Mahmûd BegDhã of Gujarat (AD 1458-1511) Dwarka (Gujarat)

  Also quoted by: Nizamuddin Ahmad

• “To which we may add this other Aristotelian consideration, that he who confers a benefit on any one loves him better than he is beloved by him again.”

  Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) said by 1592 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Michael De Montaigne

• “That muche is my bowe bent to shoote at these marks, And kyll feare, when the sky falth we shall haue larks.”

  John Heywood (1497–1580) said by 1580 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.”

  Paracelsus (1493–1541) said by 1541 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “האוצר האמיתי של הכנסייה הוא הבשורה הקדושה על תהילת וחסד אלוהים.”

  מרטין לותר (1483–1546) said by 1546 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Then Kill me at once!”

  William the Silent (1533–1584) said by 1584 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reply to the people who preferred Philip II over the Duke of Anjou, as quoted in William the Silent (1897) by Frederic Harrison

• “אם אנו מרוצים בחיינו, אל נא נמאס במותנו, כי שניהם באים אלינו מאותה יד.”

  מיכלאנג'לו (1475–1564) said by 1564 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “אנו מעוררים שנאה בעשותנו את הטוב כמו בעשותנו את הרע.”

  ניקולו מקיאוולי (1469–1527) said by 1527 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “With still others, all those they wanted to capture alive, they cut off their hands and hung them round the victim's neck, saying, "Go now, carry the message," meaning, Take the news to the Indians who have fled to the mountains.”

  Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566) said by 1566 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth.”

  Martin Luther (1483–1546) first seen 1520 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: To the Christian Nobility of the German States (1520), translated by Charles M. Jacobs, reported in rev. James Atkinson, The Christian in Society, I (Luther's Works, ed. James Atkinson, vol. 44), p. 207 (1966)

• “We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.”

  John Calvin (1509–1564) said by 1564 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.”

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) said by 1543 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “[T]he desire of bearing sovereign rule and authority respecteth neither blood nor amity, nor caring for virtue, as being wholly without respect of laws, or majesty divine; for it is not possible that he which invadeth the country and taketh away the riches of another man without cause or reason should know or fear God.”

  François de Belleforest (1530–1583) said by 1583 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Hystorie of Hamblet, Prince of Denmarke (London: Richard Bradocke for Thomas Pavier, 1608) ch. 1. Edited by David Bevington for the Internet Shakespeare Editions (*)

• “Or savage beasts upon a thousand hils.”

  Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) said by 1590 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Du Bartas

• “אין זה אושר להתעורר בבוקר.”

  פרנסואה רבלה (1494–1553) said by 1553 at the latest wikiquote:he, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity — by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...”

  Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) said by 1519 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Heir sall Wantones ga spy them and cum agane to the king”

  David Lyndsay (1490–1555) said by 1555 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I haue medelyd in So many matyers vnder your Highnes that I am not able to answer them all...but harde it ys for me or any other medlyng as I haue done to lyue vnder your grace and your lawse but we must daylye offende and wher I haue offendyd, I most humblye aske mercye and pardon at your gracyous will and plesure.”

  Thomas Cromwell (1485–1540) first seen 1536 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Letter to Henry VIII whilst imprisoned in the Tower of London (12 June 1540), quoted in Roger Bigelow Merriman, Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Volume II: Letters from 1536, Notes, Index (1902), p. 266

• “Wyatt resteth here, that quick could never rest: Whose heavenly gifts increased by disdain; And virtue sank the deeper in his breast: Such profit he by envy could obtain.”

  Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516–1547) said by 1547 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Book One, Natural Magic”

  Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.”

  Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) said by 1527 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Not all the faculties and senses have to be employed in things, but only those that are required; as for the others, leave them unoccupied for God.”

  John of the Cross (1542–1591) said by 1591 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.”

  Thomas More (1478–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 34.

• “The Nuncio Baldesari Castilione: “[His majesty] should make up his mind and fast, because delay is very dangerous.”

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) said by 1558 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source